In 1985, director Shinji Somai (“Typhoon Club) would make his only entry within Nikkatsu's Roman porno line titled “Love Hotel”. While there are distinct dips in quality in the studio's series, Somai's contribution may be considered one of the best, touching upon a wide array of topics such as toxic relationships and suicide. Japanese critics also thought highly of the movie as it won five awards at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival and also an in-house award at Nikkatsu for Best Film of the Year.
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The story begins with Tetsuro (Minori Terada) whose life has gone downhill due to his huge debts and loaning money from the yakuza. After his office had to be closed down he feels he has hit rock bottom and decides to do something crazy. He checks into a love hotel and books a girl (Noriko Hayami) for the night,...
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The story begins with Tetsuro (Minori Terada) whose life has gone downhill due to his huge debts and loaning money from the yakuza. After his office had to be closed down he feels he has hit rock bottom and decides to do something crazy. He checks into a love hotel and books a girl (Noriko Hayami) for the night,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Although mostly known to the West for his samurai films, “Samurai Assassin” and “The Sword of Doom” among others, Kihachi Okamoto’s more than 40 long filmography also includes a cooperation with the Art Theatre Guild, in an anti-war satire that is as antithetical to the Toho’s commercially successful star-studded war epic “Japan’s Longest Day as possible.
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“The Human Bullet” focuses on an unnamed soldier mentioned as Him, who undergoes a rather unusual trip from his training to his visit to various locations around the base, including a second-hand bookstore, the desert, and a village filled of prostitutes, before he is send off to serve his country as a Human Bullet, which is how the film refers to the Kamikazis.
Following a scene where Him is the only one training naked in explosives, the story then shows how this absurd event came to be, through a scene that might...
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“The Human Bullet” focuses on an unnamed soldier mentioned as Him, who undergoes a rather unusual trip from his training to his visit to various locations around the base, including a second-hand bookstore, the desert, and a village filled of prostitutes, before he is send off to serve his country as a Human Bullet, which is how the film refers to the Kamikazis.
Following a scene where Him is the only one training naked in explosives, the story then shows how this absurd event came to be, through a scene that might...
- 3/6/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Howling Village Review — Howling Village / Inunaki mura (2019) Film Review, a movie directed by Takashi Shimizu, and starring Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryota Bando, Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Renji Ishibashi, Takamasa Suga, Hina Mayano, Megumi Okina, Reiko Takashima, Rinka Otani, Masanobu Takashima, Minori Terada, Akira Sasamoto, and Ken Tanaka. Takashi Shimizu’s recent entry, Howling Village, draws its plot [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Howling Village (2019): Takashi Shimizu Takes on a Famous Urban Legend With a Solid Movie...
- 8/17/2021
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
Laputa: Castle In The Sky (Studio Ghibli)
Stars: Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada, Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill | Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
“The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer’s apprentice, finds a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant. Together, they discover both are searching for the legendary floating castle, Laputa, and vow to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal around her neck. Their quest won’t be easy, however. There are sky pirates, secret agents and monumental obstacles stopping them from discovering the truth – and each other. However, Laputa is more than it appears, and some seek to use it for evil.”
Master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki tells a magical tale of boy meets girl in a world where flying islands used to be the norm. Sheeta is a young orphan...
Stars: Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada, Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill | Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
“The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer’s apprentice, finds a young girl, Sheeta, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant. Together, they discover both are searching for the legendary floating castle, Laputa, and vow to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal around her neck. Their quest won’t be easy, however. There are sky pirates, secret agents and monumental obstacles stopping them from discovering the truth – and each other. However, Laputa is more than it appears, and some seek to use it for evil.”
Master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki tells a magical tale of boy meets girl in a world where flying islands used to be the norm. Sheeta is a young orphan...
- 4/20/2011
- by Baron Fornightly
- Nerdly
Year: 2006
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon link: link
Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon link: link
Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
- 11/2/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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